When size isn't everything...
The postcards depicting Australia's impressive relative size compared to the rest of the world that appeared on this blog a couple of weeks ago afforded an interesting perspective on the wide brown land gert by sea. This one offers another take. It's a population cartogram, depicting the world's population broken up into 200 territories which are arranged size relative, but ignoring normal territorial borders.
Yep – in this one Australia is tiny! Talk about bringing us down to size tall poppy style. It does make the world look sort of delicious though, there's a cake-y quality to the shapes and colours...
For the technically inclined this map was created using raster datasets in ArcMap's ArcToolbox you can read more about the map's construction here.
In this one the shapes are retained but the data is from 2006:
